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Quarterly 


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To  elevate  above  th\  spirit  of  the  age  must  be 
regarded  as  the  end  of,  education,  and  this  must 
stand  clearVy  before  m  ere  we  mark  out  the  op- 
pointed  road.    The  child  is  not  to  be  edueated  for 
the  present— for  this  ijs  done  without  our  aid  un- 
ceasingly and  poioer:fully—but  for  the  remote 
future,  and  of  ten  in  opposition  to  the  immediate 
future.    .    .    .    The  child  must  be  armed  against 
the  future;  yes,  even  against  t/ie  close-pressing 
present.    .     .     ..The  girl,  the  boy,  mMst  learn 
that  there  is  something  higher  in  the  ocean  than 
its  toaves— namely,  Christ,  who  catts  upon  them  ! 

JEAN  PA  UL  RICHTER  ( LE  VAN  A ). 


eUMBERLMND     UNIVERSITY    QUARTERLY 

Vol.  I.  JUNE,   1903.  No.  I. 

Published  Quarterly  by  Cumberland  University,   Lebanon,    Tennessee,      annual  Subscription  Twenty=Five   Gents. 

The  purpose  of  Cumberland  University  Quarterly  is  to  serve  as  a  medium  of  communication  between  Cumberland 
University  and  its  alumni,  students,  friends  and  the  general  body  of  scholars  engaged  in  teaching  or  research.  It  will 
contain  reports  of  the  most  important  acts  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  of  the  Faculty,  a  record  of  the  most  important 
accessions  to  the  Library,  brief  notes  relating  to  the  Faculty,  students  and  alumni,  and  such  other  news  items  as  are  deemed 
suitable  for  diffusing  information  in  regard  to  the  work  of  the  University  and  preserving  a  permanent  record  of  its  activities. 


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Memorial  Hall 


(Cumberland  University 


I  know  of  no  other  institution  of  similar  size  from  which  so  many  eminent  men  have  graduated 
as  from  Cumberland  University. —  William  Jennings  Bryan. 


UMBERLAND  UNIVERSITY  is  in  many 
respects  the  greatest  educational  institution 
in  the  South.  Twenty-six  State  Supreme 
Judges,  thirty-three  United  States  Con- 
====—  gressmen,  eight  Governors  of  States  and 
hundreds  of  other  successful  men  are  included  among 
its  alumni.  Six  great  buildings,  ample  equipment, 
faculties  of  specialists  and  hundreds  of  students  con- 
stitute the  University. 

History  In  1842  the  General  Assembly  of  the 

1842-1903  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church  select- 

Sixty-one  years.        ,    T     ,  ^  , .  . 

ed  Lebanon,  lenn.,  as  the  place  most 
suitable  for  the  location  of  an  institution  for  higher 
education  ;  and,  accordingly,  in  September  of  that 
year  Cumberland  University  entered  upon  its  his- 
tory. 

The  Department  of  Law  was  added  in  1847.  This 
was  the  first  law  school  established  in  the  South.  Its 
growth  from  the  very  beginning  was  remarkable,  and 
in  1856  it  had  grown  to  be  second  in  size  among  the 
law  schools  in  the  United  States. 

The  Department  of  Theology  was  established  in 
1852.  This  is  the  only  theological  school  of  the  Cum- 
berland   Presbyterian    Church.     Nearly    one-half    of 


the  living  ministers  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian 
Church  have  received  some  part  of  their  education 
here.  Many  prominent  ministers  of  other  denomina- 
tions also  have  received  their  training  here. 


Buildings 


Six  buildings. 
Modern  in  con 
venience. 


The  buildings  are  large  and  commo- 
dious. Memorial  Hall,  the  main  build- 
ing of  the  University,  is  occupied  by  the 
Literary,  Engineering  and  Theological 
Schools  and  School  of  Oratory.  It  is  situated  on  a 
beautiful  elevation,  and  in  the  center  of  a  beautiful 
campus  of  fifty  acres.  This  building  contains  more 
than  fifty  rooms,  especially  designed  and  adapted  for 
college  and  university  work. 

Caruthers  Hall,  the  gift  of  Governor  Robert  L. 
Caruthers,  situated  on  West  Main  Street,  contains 
the  law  lecture  rooms,  the  general  repository  and  law 
library  and  a  large  auditorium  for  the  general  meet- 
ings for  students  and  for  the  University  exercises. 

Castle  Heights,  the  best-equipped  boys'  school  in 
the  South,  and  articulated  with  the  University  as  a 
Training  School,  is  situated  on  West  Main  Street, 
one  mile  from  the  Public  Square,  and  on  a  large  and 
very  beautiful  campus.  More  than  thirty  boys  were 
refused  admission  the  first  year  for  want  of  rooms, 


Divinity  Hall,  situated  on  West  Main  Street,  and 
once  the  home  of  the  Theological  School,  has  been 
thoroughly  renovatedand  is  now  used  as  the 
University  dormitory 
and  refectory.  The 
campus  consists  of  five 
acres,  thus  furnishing 
ample  room  for  ath- 
letics within  easy  dis- 
tance to  all  dormitory 
students. 

The  new  Dormitory 
is  a  magnificent  build- 
ing in  course  of  erec- 
tion on  the  University 
campus;  will  be  large 
and  commodious;  sup- 
plied with  every  convenience,  rooms  single  and  in 
suites,  many  of  which  have  already  been  engaged. 

The  Lebanon  College  for  Young  Ladies  is  a  large 
three-story,  stone-and-brick  structure,  situated  on 
North  Cumberland  Street.  The  building  has  been 
enlarged  and  remodeled  throughout,  and  is  thor- 
oughly modern  in  convenience. 

The  departments  of  the  University  as 
at  present  organized  are  as  follows  : 

i.  The  School  of  Liberal  Arts, 
with  (a)  Undergraduate  Courses,  (6) 
Graduate  Courses.  Faculty  of  ten  mem- 
bers. Four-year  courses  leading  to  Degrees  of  B.S.  and 
A.B. ;  Graduate  courses  to  Degrees  of  A.M.  and  Ph.D. 


MITCHELL    LIBRARY,    THE    DEPARTMENTAL    LIBRARY    OF    THE    COLLEGE. 


Depart- 
ments 

Breadth  of  cul- 
ture.   Fitness 
for  any  posi- 
tion. 


2.  The  Law  School.  More  than  two  thousand 
alumni.  They  are  in  all  the  States  in  the  Union. 
Senators,    Representatives    in    Congress,    State   and 

Federal  Judges.  En- 
tire course  in  one  or 
two  years,  as  preferred. 

3.  The  Engineer- 
ing School.  Faculty 
of  six  specialists. 
Four-year  course  lead- 
ing to  Degree  of  Civil 
Engineer. 

4.  Conservatory 
of  Music.  Faculty  of 
ten  instructors.  Best 
Conseivatory  in  the 
South. 

5.  School  of  Oratory.  Faculty  of  seven  in- 
structors. Three-year  course  Lading  to  Degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Oratory. 

6.  The  Theological  School.  Nine  professois 
and  instructors.  Special  courses  in  English,  Bible 
study  and  evangelistic  work.  Careful  training  in 
oratory.  Constitutional  and  Municipal  Law  a  part 
of  the  regular  course.  Special  courses  of  lectures  on 
Sunday-school  methods.  Exceptional  opportunities 
for  training  in  vocal  music. 

Each  of  these  departments  has  a  separate  faculty, 
organization  and  management,  but  all  are  under  the 
direction  of  one  Board  of  Trustees  and  one  Presi- 
dent. 


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The  New  Dormitory 


Thoroughly 
modern . 


Equip-  i.  Libraries.    The  equipment  of  the 

ment  University  is   first-class,   consisting  of 

libraries,  general  and  departmental ; 
laboratories,  chemical,  physical,  biolog- 
ical, and  a  Museum  of  Natural  History. 

The  Hale  Reference  Library  was  established   for 
the   exclusive    use   of  the    Theological    Department, 
through  the  liberality  of  Mrs.  E-  J.  Hale,  of  Morris- 
town,  Tenn.,  in  mem- 
ory   of    her    husband, 
Dr.  E.  B.  Hale,  recent- 
ly deceased. 

The  Mitchell  Libra- 
ry, most  elegantly  fur- 
nished with  cabinet 
mantel,  sectional  book- 
cases and  other  furni- 
ture to  match,  is  the 
gift  of  President  David 
E.  Mitchell  to  the 
Academic  Department. 
It  occupies  a  room  on  the  first  floor  of  Memorial  Hall. 

The  Law  Library  has  been  recently  established  by 
the  Board  of  Trustees.  It  already  contains  several 
thousand  volumes  and  occupies  a  room  in  Caruthers 
Hall,  where  is  found  also  the  General  Repository. 

These  libraries  contain  over  twenty  thousand  vol- 
umes. 

2.  Laboratories.  The  Chemical  Department  has 
at  its  command  a  number  of  rooms  in  the  University 
building,  being  modern  in  equipment.     In   addition 


CHEMICAL     LABORATORY. 


to  the  general  lecture  room,  there  are  laboratories  for 
general  and  analytic  work,  well-equipped  desks  and 
apparatus  for  students,  ample  enough  for  the  courses 
offered. 

The  Department  of  Physics  has  at  its  command  a 
suite  of  rooms  on  the  first  floor  of  the  University 
building.  This  department  has  apparatus  worth  many 
hundreds  of  dollars,  and,  as  the  other  laboratories,  is 

adding  to  its  stock  ev- 
ery 3'ear. 

Biological  Laborato- 
ry. It  is  with  very 
great  pleasure  that  the 
University  announces 
the  acquisition  of  a 
thoroughly  first  -  class 
Biological  Laboratory. 
It  is  the  gift  of  Mr. 
Frank  W.  Nisbet,  of 
St.  Louis,  Mo.  It  will 
be  supplied  with  all 
the  apparatus  required  in  a  college  laboratory,  and  will 
occupy  rooms  on  the  second  floor  of  Memorial  Hall. 

7ldmis=  No  college  or  university  of  the  South 

sion  has   a    higher   standard    for   admission. 

Examination  Written  examinations  are  required 
£5522*  where  certificates  from  accredited 
schools  are  not  presented.  However, 
we  offer  special  accommodations  to  students  who  are 
prepared  for  college  in  most  of  their  studies  but  who 
are  deficient  in  a  few  things. 


Castle  Heights 


Women  are  admitted  to   all  classes  on  the  same 
footing  with  men.     Requirements: 

i.  English.  Preparation  for  admission  to  the 
English  work  includes  a  thorough  training  in  gram- 
mar, English  composition,  spelling,  punctuation  and 
capitalization.  The  contents  of  the  following  books 
must  be  mastered :  Shakespeare's  "  Merchant  of 
Venice "  and  "  Julius  Caesar,"  the  "  Sir  Roger  de 
Coverly  Papers,"  Goldsmith's  "  Vicar  of  Wakefield," 
Coleridge's  "Ancient  Mariner,"  Scott's  "  Ivanhoe," 
Carlyle's  "Essay  on  Burns,"  Tennyson's  "Prin- 
cess," Lowell's  "  Vision  of  Sir  Launfal,"  George 
Eliot's  "Silas  Mar- 
ner."  For  special 
study  and  practice: 
Shakespeare's  "  Mac- 
beth;" Milton's  "L' Al- 
legro," "II  Penseroso," 
"  Comus  "  and  "  Lyci- 
das;"  Macaulay's  "Mil- 
ton "  and  "Addison  " 
and  Burke's  "Concilia- 
tion with  theColonies." 

2.  Mathematics. 
Candidates  for  en- 
trance should  have 
completed  arithmetic, 
algebra  through  quad- 
ratic equations,  plane 
and  solid  geometry, 
and   be    familiar    with 


CARUTHERS    HALL    AUDITO 
EXERCISES 


the  metric  system  of  weights  and  measures  and  be 
able  to  use  logarithmic  tables. 

3.  Science.  He  should  have  a  fair  knowledge  of 
geography  and  physiography,  elementary  physics, 
anatomy,  physiology  and  hygiene. 

4.  Latin.  Required :  Caesar  ( four  books )  or 
equivalent,  Cicero's  Oration  against  Catiline,  the 
Citizenship  of  Archias  and  one  other  oration  left  to 
the  choice  of  the  teacher ;  Virgil's  iEneid  (six  books), 
sight  translation  in  Viri  Roma;,  Caesar  and  Nepos  ; 
prose  composition. 

5.  Greek.     Xenophon's    Anabasis    (four   books), 

Homer's  Iliad  ( three 
books)  and  prose  com- 
position. Modern  lan- 
guages may  be  substi- 
tuted for  Greek. 

6.  Modern  Lan- 
guage. In  keeping 
with  the  tendency  of 
the  age  to  raise  the 
standard  for  entrance 
to  college,  and  in  or- 
der to  make  our 
course  the  equal  of 
the  very  best  educa- 
tional institutions  of 
the  country,  one  year's 
work  in  some  modern 
language  will  be  re- 
quiredjfor  entrance. 


RIUM,    WHERE    OUR    PUBLIC 
ARE    HELD. 


Lebanon  College  for  Youn£  Ladies 


Studen  i.  Literary  Societies.     Three  very 

Organiza=  splendid  literary  societies  are  connected 
tions  with  the  University.     They  are  the  Phi- 

Conducted  with  lomathean,    Heurethelian    and   the    Ca- 
ness.  ruthers.    These  societies  all  have  com- 

modious and  well-furnished  halls,  and 
hold  meetings  one  evening  each  week  during  the 
scholastic  year.  They  frequently  give  public  exhibi- 
tions at  Caruthers  Hall. 

2.  Fraternities.  Cumberland  University  has 
three  fraternities:  the  Kappa  Sigma,  Sigma  Alpha 
Epsilon  and  Pi  Kappa  Alpha.  They  are  all  in  a 
nourishing  condition.  Fraternities  are  a  valuable 
feature  of  university  life.  They  afford  splendid 
opportunities  for  recreation,  the  cultivation  of  the 
social  nature  and  very  greatly  safeguard  the  morals 
of  many  young  men. 

3.  Athletics.  Believing  that  athletics  is  an  es- 
sential feature  of  university  life,  the  members  of  the 
faculty  cooperate  with  the  student  body  in  the  effort 
to  promote  a  healthy  athletic  spirit  and  to  maintain 
the  standing  of  the  University  in  the  annual  inter- 
collegiate contests.  Professionalism  is  entirely  ex- 
cluded, and  no  student  is  permitted  to  take  part  in 
any  public  contest  who  is  conditioned  in  his  studies. 
The  outlook  for  athletics  is  much  more  flattering  than 
it  has  been  for  years. 

4.  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Cumberland  University  has  the 
honor  of  having  organized  one  of  the  first  college 
Associations  in  the  United  States — some  think  the 
first.     This  Association,  especially  since  its  reorgani- 


risen  by  the 
might  of  merit 


zation  after  the  war,  has  been  one  of  the  strong  re- 
ligious forces  of  the  University. 

Tllumni  More  eminent  men  of  the  South  have 

Men  who  have  graduated  at  Cumberland  University 
than  at  any  other  college  or  university 
in  the  United  States.  We  have  in  the 
United  States  Senate  four  men :  Joseph  W.  Bailey,  of 
Texas;  William  B.  Bate,  of  Tennessee;  Murphy  J. 
Foster,  of  Louisiana  ;  Ex-Governor  James  B.  Mc- 
Creary,  of  Kentucky.  At  three  different  times  dur- 
ing the  past  quarter  of  a  century  Cumberland  Uni- 
versity has  had  more  men  in  the  United  States 
Congress  than  any  other  school  in  the  United  States. 
Among  the  alumni  may  be  counted  twenty-six  Judges 
of  the  State  Supreme  Courts,  eight  Governors  of 
States,  one  member  of  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court,  thirty-three  Congressmen  and  several  Sena- 
tors. Three  hundred  and  twenty-six  ministers  of  the 
Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church  are  among  the 
alumni  of  the  University,  besides  many  distinguished 
preachers  of  other  denominations.  Added  to  this  list 
may  be  mentioned  a  host  of  prominent  and  successful 
lawyers,  politicians,  bankers,  teachers,  editors  and 
representatives  of  the  various  walks  of  life. 

Moral  The  moral  and  religious  tone  of  Ueb- 

Tone  anon  is  unsurpassed.     The  various  de- 

nominations are  represented  with  good 
churches.     Saloons  with  their  attendant 

evils   have   been   banished    forever   from    the   town. 

The  Faculty  of  the  University  is  genuinely  religious. 


Teachings  of 
Jesus  an  ideal 


Hale  Reference  Library 


An  abode  of 
learning  hal- 
lowed by  tradi 
tion. 


The  College  Y.  M.  C.  A.  uses  every  means'  to  lead 
the  unsaved  to  Christ.  At  the  close  of  last  year's 
work  only  two  students  in  the  College  were  unsaved. 
Very  recently,  during  a  special  season  of  grace,  about 
forty  students  became  Christians  in  a  little  more  than 
one  week.  The  temptations  to  students  in  such  a 
town  and  university  are  very  small  compared  with 
those  found  in  the  city.  Parents  who  wish  to  send 
their  boys  where  -the  dangers  of  college  life  are  the 
least,  should  not  fail  to  consider  this  point  with  care. 
Location  Cumberland  University  is  located  at 

Lebanon,    Tenn.,    thirty    miles    east   of 
Nashville.     Lebanon  is  a  beautiful  little 
town  of  the  highest  culture  and  refine- 
ment.    Health,  society  and  religious  at- 
mosphere    unsurpassed  —  an 
environment  more  suited  to 
student  life  cannot  be  found. 
Railroad  facilities  are  the  very 
best.     Between  Lebanon  and 
Nashville    we   have  fourteen 
trains     daily,     and     between 
Lebanon  and  Knoxville,  four 
daily.     Our  location  gives  us 
all  the  advantages  of  a  small 
town    in    moderate    expense 
and  minimum  of  temptation  ; 
while  our  proximity  to  Nash- 
ville and  very  splendid  rail- 
road facilities  gives  us  all  the 
advantages  of  the  city. 


Present 
Prosper- 
ity 

Steady  growth 

Increased 

popularity. 


SCENE  ON  THE  UNIVERSITY  CAMPUS 


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Climate  Our   climate    is    unsurpassed,  charac- 

Most  delightful,  teristically  Southern  and  most  delight- 
ful. We  suffer  neither  from  extremes 
of  heat  nor  cold.  We  have  very  little  snow  or  ice 
in  winter.  Students  who  desire  a  mild  climate 
can  find  none  more  desirable.  No  more  healthful 
location  can  be  found. 

Cumberland    University    has    grown 
very  rapidly  during  the  past  two  years. 
Nearly    seventy- five    thousand    dollars 
have  been  spent  during  this  time  in  im- 
provement.    The   total   enrollment    for 
the     year    1902 -'03,    all    departments, 
was    five    hundred    and    fifty -four.       Arrangements 
have  just   been    completed    by  which  the  very  best 
Conservatory  of  Music  in  the 
South  will  be  opened  in  Sep- 
tember.   A  School  of  Oratory- 
will  be  opened  at  the  same 
time. 

A  magnificent  new  Dormi- 
tory is  in  course  of  erection 
on  the  campus.  Endowment 
and  material  equipment  are 
growing  rapidly,  and  the  in- 
stitution is  now  thoroughly 
modern  in  convenience  and 
advantages  offered. 

Aside  from  the  necessary 
equipment,  the  campus  has 
been  greatly  beautified. 


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Expenses        The   cost   of    school   and    living   ex- 
Per  Term    penses  per  term  may  be  seen  from  the 

The  best  advan-     following  : 
tages  at  the 

least  expense.  Tuition $25  00 

Contingent  fee 10  00 

Diploma  fee  for  graduates    5  00 

Boarding   with    private    families    ( $2.25   to 

$3.75  per  week  ) 70  00 

Boarding  in  clubs  about 40  00 

Boarding  in  New  Dormitory,  including  room 

rent 65  00 

The  year  is  divided  into  two  terms  of  twenty 
weeks  each. 

7ls\Others        Hon.  Joseph  W.  Bailey,  United  States 

See  Us  Senator  from  Texas,  writing  to  a  friend, 

"A  good  name  sayS  :  "There  is  no  better  Law  School 

chosen  than  m  ^e  United  States  than  that  of  Cum- 

great  riches."  berland  University." 

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Rev.  Howard  W.  Pope,  D.D.,  Secretary  of  the 
Northfield  Movement,  says :  "  I  would  rather  send 
a  boy  to  Cumberland  University  and  to  its  Theolog- 
ical Seminary  than  to  Yale,  my  own  Alma  Mater." 

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Hon.  William  Jennings  Bryan  recently  said:  "I 
know  of  no  other  institution  of  similar  size  from 
which  so  many  eminent  men  have  graduated  as 
from  Cumberland  University." 

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Rev.  Scott  F.  Hershey,  D.D.,  Pastor  of  the  First 
Presbyterian   Church  of  Boston,   recently   delivered 


a  series  of  lectures  to  the  Theological  Seminary. 
Later,  writing  of  his  visit,  to  his  own  Church  paper, 
The  Presbyterian  Journal,  and  speaking  of  the  Uni- 
versity as  a  whole,  he  says  :  "  Can  any  of  the  readers 
of  the  Journal  tell  of  any  institution  where  such  con- 
ditions as  these  pertain  ?  There  is  not  a  drinking, 
gambling,  or  low  theatrical  place,  or  even  a  dancing 
hall,  in  the  town.  Steady  and  loving  effort  is  made 
to  lead  every  student  to  Christ.  Class  instruction 
bears  upon  the  vital  consequence  of  education  to  the 
development  of  Christian  character.  .  .  .  Ever}' 
student  is  expected  to  be  a  gentleman  worthy  of  the 
fellowship  of  the  wives  and  daughters  in  these  Chris- 
tian homes,  or  he  must  quit  the  place.  Is  there  a 
place  like  it  in  all  the  land?  Is  there  a  place  so 
safe  for  young  men  from  Christian  homes?"  Speak- 
ing of  the  Law  School,  he  says:  "It  is  a  fact  most 
interesting  and  remarkable  that  a  far  greater  per  cent 
of  the  law  graduates  of  Cumberland  University  reach 
the  high  position  of  the  State  Legislatures,  the  Sen- 
ate, Governorship,  United  States  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, and  Courts,  District,  State  and  United 
States  Superior,  than  those  of  any  other  law  school 
in  the  country.  Should  these  lines  be  read  by  any 
young  man  contemplating  law,  he  will  do  well  to 
look  into  the  methods  of  this  school." 

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Many  more  such  testimonials  might  indicate  the 
very  superior  advantages  offered  by  Cumberland 
University. 


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THE  FALL  TERM  OP  ■  CUMBERLAND  UNIVERSITY  will  >egin  Sep- 
tember 2,  1903;  the  Spring  Term,  Janvjuy  18,  1904.  A  short  vacation  at 
Christmas  will  be  given.     Comriiencemeji   -Day  will  be  June, 3,  1904. 

2.  Entrance   Examination  will  be    hfld   August   31  -September    2,    1903. 
Students  desiring  examination  should  reacp  Lebanon  one  or  more  days  before 

3.  For  a  Catalogue  of  the  Universit   j  or  for  any  information,  address 


P.    MMRION  SIMMS,   Registrar. 


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